Chapters 79-83
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| 367825320 | Pierre Schaeffer | (1910-55) created concrete music | |
| 367825321 | combinatoriality | the capacity of two forms of a twelve-tone row to create multidimensional aggregates | |
| 367825322 | total serialism | a compositional method in which the choice of most of the principal elements of a composition (including pitches, rhythms, and dynamics) is governed precompositionally by an integrated system or arrangement. | |
| 367825323 | Darmstadt | German town near Frankfurt that was the birth place to many great composers | |
| 367825324 | surrealism | twentieth-century literary and artistic movement that confounds superficial reality or logic in order to evoke unconscious states of mind | |
| 367825325 | prepared piano | a piano whose sound is modified by the introduction of mutes and other objects between strings | |
| 367825326 | musique concrete | (concrete music) electronic music made from recordings of matural or man-made sounds | |
| 367825327 | jungle style | a big band style, associated especially with Duke Ellington in the 1920s and 1930s, evoking African or primitive music effects bebop | |
| 367825328 | cool jazz | a style of jazz of the 1950s characterized by subdued playing and moderate tempos | |
| 367825329 | free jazz | a type of jazz of the 1950s and 1960s characterized by the removal or reinterpretation of key, normal harmonic progressions, and familiar jazz forms | |
| 367825330 | jazz fusion | a style of popular music that mixes elements of jazz and rock | |
| 368854520 | Bebop | jazz style that uses improvisation and scat singing | |
| 367825331 | extended techniques | playing and singing in unusual ways in order to expand the sounds available in a musical work | |
| 367825332 | metric modulation | a term associated with the composer Elliott Carter designating a proportional change of tempo by which a small division of a beat is regrouped into a new beat so that a new tempo results | |
| 367825333 | phasing | a term associated with composer Steve Reich; a phrase piece is one that begins with two sources of sound giving forth an identical ostinato; one sound source gradually pulls ahead, creating a constantly-changing rhythmic interaction with the other source | |
| 367825334 | micropolyphony | a term associated with the composer Gyorgy Ligeti designating a texture in which a large number of lines merge into a sound mass | |
| 367825335 | gate | in electronic music, a device allowing for shifts in amplitude in an electronic signal; in the music of John Adams a point of modulation from one collection of tones to another | |
| 367825336 | tintinnabuli | (bell style) a term coined by the composer Arvo Part for a polyphony in which a melodic line is joined to a "bells" line limited to the three tones of the tonic triad | |
| 367825337 | Cage - Indeterminacy | 4'33" | |
| 367825338 | Varese - electronic | Poeme electronique | |
| 367825339 | Berio - chamber | In Circles | |
| 367825340 | Crumb - chamber | Ancient Voices of Children | |
| 367825341 | Riley - Chamber | In C | |
| 367825342 | Ligeti - Contemporary | Poem Symphonique for 100 Metronomes | |
| 367825343 | Hungarian Rock | Ligeti - Instrumental | |
| 367825344 | Adams - Opera | Nixon in China | |
| 367825345 | Glass - Opera | Einstein on the Beach | |
| 367825346 | Copland - Symphony | Fanfare for the Common Man | |
| 367825347 | Impressionism | natural, ambiguous tonality, subtle rhythm, melodic fragments; Debussy; En sourdine | |
| 367825348 | Serialism | organized, repetition, rhythmic ;Babbitt; Composition for Piano No. 1 | |
| 367825349 | Neo-Classicism | impulsive, balance, bold rhythm/texture; Stravinsky; Pulcinella, Octet | |
| 367825350 | Indeterminism | freedom, process, discovery; Cage; 4'33" | |
| 367825351 | Modernism | control, product, construction; Boulez; The Hammer Without a Master | |
| 367825352 | Minimalism | constructed, repetitive, rhythmic, innovative; Reich; Clapping Hands |
